Metro Express buses to enjoy extra-long green traffic lights

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Metro and the District of Columbia are getting ready to start a system that extends green lights for three to five seconds if a Metro Express bus is approaching an intersection.

Metro has beentesting the bus-priority system near the Howard University section of its Georgia Avenue/Seventh Street express bus route and has equipped all of its Metro Extra buses with the technology.

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